James Ryan

I'm out to eliminate the term(s) "post-liberal(ism)". Too academic. Just call it statism. I guess authoritarian(ism) is ok too.

@EliAfriatISR I guess the same holds true for Pehlavi

I'm just here to remind you, replacing an 86-year-old Khamenei with a 56-year-old Khamenei is not regime change.

@DSterling1948 It is. And pre-Liberty lol. Therefore more descriptive

@jamesryan lol you think Statist is not “post-liberty”?

@DSterling1948 Hmmm ... That's not my experience. How about anti-liberal? Post anything is just after. To me, it's not descriptive at all. I had to look it up when I first heard it. "Statist" seems pretty clear to me, too

@jamesryan @PhilWMagness Most people probably don’t understand Statist. I think using Postliberal is important, as they self identify this way. More people need to understand the Post-Liberty Postmodern risk therein.

@MiRyAM989 Squatters, yes. Violent, probably. Genocidal? No

@jamesryan @BriannaWu Call the isntrealis what they are, genocidal squatters.

When I talk about the secret October 7 film of Hamas atrocities the IDF shows people, I inevitably have nightmares about it. There’s a segment of the movie where Palestinians descend on a Jew they murdered the way my four dogs might descend on a piece of dropped hot dog. Eyes shining, smiles bright, they proceed to mutilate and dismember the body with their bare hands. One Palestinian takes a bloody, ripped off Jewish limb and holds it over his head with pride, the way a child might hold a spelling bee trophy. Blood splatters as the Palestinians merrily work. That’s what I dreamed about last night. Again. So many people’s analysis of this conflict is fundamentally wrong. The people I can’t forgive are my fellow Democrats, who should know very well, some people are so bigoted they are willing to kill. This is the entire basis of the important work we’ve done legislatively protecting women, gay people and Black people. I don’t understand why my party’s sympathies land with the terrorists over their victims. I think every single person willing to whitewash Hamas should have to see the film I did.

@Lameststuffx Absolutely. Show the evil

@BriannaWu @jamesryan or the cartel video where a tied up man has his legs hacked off and is beaten with his legs while screaming. SO yeah wheres the video

@TheAbstract3000 So there aren't any wacko Jewish religious nuts in the West bank? I saw a video of the IDF shutting down streets and businesses. They put up some sort of curtain so that the Arabs wouldn't see some Orthodox Jews going to some cemetery. Remember, religion poisons everything

@jamesryan @nurityohanan This is a blood libel. The Hebrew writing there is awfully written, it looks like someone who doesn't really know Hebrew graffiti this. The Star of David was also clearly done by someone who doesn't know how to draw a Star of David, which isn't a Jew..

הלילה: מתנחלים תקפו בדואים שגרים סמוך ללובן א-שרקיה דרומית לשכם. מוחמד כעאבנה תושב המקום סיפר לי על עשרות, חלק חמושים וחלק עם מקלות. הציתו 5 רכבים ו-2 אוהלים ותקפו תושבים. שניים נפצעו מהמקלות ופונו לבית חולים. לפי כעאבנה האירוע התרחש תוך דקות ובסופו התוקפים ברחו ולא הגיעו צבא או משטרה למקום. מדובר בבדואים שברחו ממערג'את בדרום הבקעה לפני שנתיים בגלל אלימות מתנחלים.

@DSterling1948 @PhilWMagness Right. So just use the word everybody understands. I'm pretty sure post liberalism is a recent term. I'm old. I don't think I heard that term until the last few years. Maybe Trump accelerated it

@jamesryan @PhilWMagness Potato PotAto

@RealHoosierPoli Jingoism

A remittance tax might be the only tax in existence that isn't a parasite on our liberty and economy since it is itself a tax on parasitism. Our state is not an economic zone. Indiana needs to implement this and other policies to discourage foreign profiteering.

Am I the only one who thinks this is just a huge waste of money?

@NewReaganCaucus Don't freak out until we know what the damage is

ffs

@chefhealthcoach @BriannaWu Yes

@jamesryan @BriannaWu If it was your son or daughter’s limbs being torn apart, would you want the world to see it repeatedly and see it when you open social media?

@BriannaWu True, still if they're "Palestinian" so are Israelis and Jordanians. "Palestinian" gives them a legitimacy they don't deserve. Calling them "Arab" might pressure the Arab word to rein them in

@jamesryan I don’t think the average Arab is brainwashed the way the average Palestinian is. The UAE has some of the toughest antisemitism laws in the world and it’s benefited economically because of it.

Brent and Murban finally dropped like WTI

@joinautopilot Brent down only a fraction, and Murban still up

Breaking: The US and Iran just entered into a 2-week ceasefire Here are the top 3 sectors to watch: • Airlines: Jet fuel doubled during the Hormuz blockade, so a reopening sends oil prices lower - $DAL, $UAL, $AAL, $LUV • Shipping and logistics: Hormuz reopening cuts transit times and kills the war surcharges - $FDX, $UPS, $ZIM • Tech: Oil below $100 flips sentiment back to growth as risk appetite increases - $NVDA, $MSFT, $AMZN

@reason Haven't listened yet, but I will. I rarely miss an episode At least Defense is constitutional

WATCH: The Reason editors Trump's proposal for a $1.5 trillion defense budget, the largest in modern history, and what it says about the administration's priorities. reason.com/podcast/2026/0…

WTI takes a tumble but Brent and Murban still up

I don’t see any way to interpret President Trump's "prediction" that "a whole civilization will die tonight" as other than a threat to order the military to commit crimes against civilians. If he issues such an order, it will be the duty of military leaders to refuse to comply.